Category: California

Our quick visit to Santa Cruz ended with an awesome breakfast and walk along the coast to a lookout point where we hopped a fence and sat out on the rocks watching the surfers do their thing – it made me even more excited for learning to surf in Costa Rica! Then it was … More A USA Road Trip (Part 3): Santa Cruz to Los Angeles

Rate this:

Leaving Yosemite behind us, we began our drive out of the park and headed westwards, towards our next destination, Santa Cruz, where we were meeting a friend who goes to college there. Our aim was to arrive in SC by around 6:30pm, but it seems that was very much just wishful thinking and we soon … More A USA Road Trip (Part 2): Yosemite to Santa Cruz

Rate this:

For those of you that have been following the blog for a while, you’ll probably be aware that I’ve been a little absent lately. And if you’ve been with me from the very beginning you might have already realised that’s because it’s been summer, and summer for me means spending 4 months living and working … More A USA Road Trip (Part 1): Fresno to Yosemite

Rate this:

Quite a while ago now I was tagged in a travel blogger series by The Little Backpacker (read her interview here) that was doing the rounds called ‘5 Cities I Would Return To’, and obviously, me being me, I started a post for it, and then promptly forgot all about it until just now. So … More 5 Cities I Would Return To

Rate this:

This week saw me saying a final goodbye to Australia and everyone in it (miss you all already!), getting on a plane and travelling for pretty much 24 hours, before arriving in America for another summer at Camp Sloane! So yesterday, after finally getting to our friend Juliet’s place, we went out for food and … More Photo Of The Week: San Francisco Says Hello

Rate this:

Happy New Year guys! I hope you all had a great 2013 and excellent celebrations to bring in 2014?! So we’re about 2 weeks into the new year, but before I chat about what I’ve been up to so far in 2014, lets go back a bit. And 2013 sure was a busy one for … More Roo Around The World’s Travel Year: A Review Of 2013

Rate this:

It’s been weeks, months and years of planning, hoping, wishing and dreaming, but I finally did it. I finally boarded that plane and moved to Australia! And what a crazy journey it’s been. This all began way back in December 2011 when, pretty much just days after arriving in this gloriously sunny country, I’d decided … More From London to Australia, A Journey

Rate this:

Let me take you back a photo I posted on May 7, 2012, a hot and sunny day in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. I was with two of my bestest friends in the whole world and we were just about to start our journey across the USA, from LA to Camp Sloane in Connecticut. Take … More Photo Of The Week…Santa Monica, Revisited

Rate this:

So I finally did it…I finally booked my flight from Los Angeles to Sydney for September! It’s actually happening – my year (or more) in Oz is happening and I am too excited! I’m flying from LA because I’ll be spending the summer in the USA working at Camp Sloane in Connecticut and then in … More Photo Of The Week: Making Plans

Rate this:

To most people, the 5th of November means fireworks, bonfires and toffee apples, but for me, November 5th will always hold a completely different meaning. For me, it was the start of something amazing. It was the day I left the UK to embark upon the most epic of adventures; put simply, it was the … More One Year Today